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Abdoulaye Niang

Dr Abdoulaye Niang is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University Gaston Berger (UGB) in Senegal. He has also lectured at the private University of Trade and Management (ESUP) in Dakar (2008), and was a guest lecturer at Rutgers University, New Jersey in 2007. He was awarded a PHD with distinction at UGB in 2010 for his thesis entitled Intégration sociale et insertion socioprofessionnelle des jeunes bboys par le mouvement hip hop à Dakar. His research interests include youth, social change and social movements; music and creative industries in general; the use of ICTs; and theories and methods in social sciences. He has published book chapters and articles including '"Preaching Music" and Islam in Senegal: Can the Secular Mediate the Religious? The Case of Rap and Mbalax Music', in: African Communication Research (2009); L'industrie musicale au Sénégal: essai d'analyse (CODESRIA, 2008); L'industrie musicale sénégalaise face au défi des NTIC: états des lieux et perspectives (CODESRIA, forthcoming); Native Tongues: The African Hip Hop Reader (Africa World Press, forthcoming); and Global Youth? Hybrid Identities and Plural Worlds (Routledge, 2006). He has also (co-)authored several applied research reports: Dynamiques et rôles économique et social du secteur informel des TIC en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre (2010); Etude de l'évolution du sous-secteur de l'aquaculture au Ghana et au Nigeria pendant les trois dernières décennies et les leçons à en tirer (2009); Femmes et NTIC au Sénégal (2006); Genre, énergie et infrastructures dans la CEDEAO (2006); and Rôle des acteurs institutionnels et cadres de concertation dans la relance de l'économie locale ( 2003). Dr Niang is the founder of the Collective of the Young Researchers at UGB's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences; a member of URIC (Observatory on Innovation and Social Change) at UGB; and a member of the International Sociological Association. He is currently involved in developing capacity building for youth in several domains (methodology, self-confidence) and milieus (universities and high schools).